Download 2015 Fall Semester Mid

United States History Midterm
REVIEW GUIDE Fall 2015
Colonies through Revolution
(Chapters 1-4)
1. Which country established
permanent settlements in Canada
and developed fur trading?
16. John Locke’s writing of “Two
Treatises of Government in 1690”
most likely reflects the ideals of
what movement?
17. Which battle was the turning
point of the Revolutionary War?
18. The final battle of the
Revolutionary War was what?
2. Which Colony was founded for
19. Where do General Washington
religious freedom by Roger
and his army spend the long
Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
winter in 1777?
3. Which was the first colonial
establishment in America in
1607?
4. What was the first representative
government in America in
Virginia?
5. “Lost Colony”
6. Half Way Covenant of 1662
7. Describe the Mass. Bay “City
Upon a Hill”.
8. Who were the Puritans? (Beliefs)
20. Who was the Marquis De
Lafayette?
21. The Treaty of Paris and US
Boundaries.
22. The Proclamation Line of 1763.
Constitution through President
Monroe (Chapters 5and 6)
23. What is the purpose of the Bill of
Rights?
24. Why did the Anti-Federalists
9. What is Mercantilism?
finally agree to the ratification of
10. What areas were a part of the
the Constitution?
Triangular Trade?
25. What was James Madison’s role
11. What was “Salutary Neglect?”
in the creation of the
12. Who wrote the pamphlet
Constitution?
“Common Sense?”
26. What were some of the main
13. What were the Navigation Acts?
points in George Washington’s
14. Where and what was the
Farwell Address from his
Proclamation of 1763?
15. Why were the colonists so angry
presidency?
27. What was the FIRST domestic
about the taxes imposed on them
crisis of the US Government
from Great Britain?
under the CONSTITUTION? (Think
Washington’s term)
28. What was the Missouri
Compromise?
29. What was the Northwest
Ordinance?
30. What were some of the effects of
the Erie Canal being built? (think
what it did for cities along the
Great Lakes)
31. Why does the U.S. declare war on
Great Britain in 1812?
Nationalism, Sectionalism, Jackson,
Reforms and Manifest Destiny
(Chapters 7-9)
32. What was the effect of the cotton
39. What acquisition did we gain
after the War with
Mexico?(territories and the name)
Pre-Civil War, The Civil War, and
Reconstruction (Chapters 10-12)
40. Which Confederate General was
killed accidently by his own men?
41. Who was Jefferson Davis?
42. Where General Grant’s siege was
in 1863, also considered the
Turning Point of the Western
Front?
43. Which Battle gave the Union
Army complete control over the
gin in American cotton
Confederate rail lines and set the
production?
stage for Sherman’s March to the
33. Angelina and Sarah Grimke are
most notable for being with what
reform group?(There are 2)
34. Which President was most
Sea?
44. Bleeding Sumner took place in
1856 because of what? (why did it
happen)
associated with “Manifest
45. What was the goal of the KKK?
Destiny?”
46. Who were the Carpetbaggers and
35. What religious group is Joseph
Smith and Brigham Young most
associated with?
36. Who are some of the most
famous abolitionists?
37. What was the Nullification Crisis?
(During Jackson’s term)
38. Who was the biggest opponent
of the Tariff of 1828 and
supported “States’ Rights?”
Scalawags?
47. What was the Freedman’s
Bureau?
48. What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments?
49. What does “Reconstruction”
mean?
50. Reconstruction Act of 1867.
51. Amendment that gave former
slaves Citizenship.
52. The Freedman’s Bureau.